2022 WPT Tampa
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Tampa, Florida
Event 8
$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$20,000 Guaranteed
Entries:  296
Prize Pool:  $99,160
August 28, 2022

Michael Hermoza topped the field in Event 8 to take home the WPT Trophy and first-place prize worth $21,890. Here is what he had to say right after the victory: “I’m from Colombia, so I just traveled here to start living in New York so this is a very high experience. I played down in Miami, in the opening event I came 27th, so I see that it’s a very good tournament to play so I decided to come here to Tampa.”

“I actually knocked out seven players at the final table, and when it got down to three-handed play I had some really easy decisions most of the time. I did good things at the final table, I never felt too much pressure, I just won my hands and the ICM is very important in these situations,” said Hermoza when he was asked about his journey through the final table.

Hermoza also mentioned that he was inspired by his recent success at the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open to make the trip down here to Tampa. “This whole chain of casinos are really, really good. Miami was amazing, and here the structure of the tournaments was really, really nice. I never felt the pressure of the blinds. It doesn’t matter what the price of the buy-in is, they do really good things. And know I’m going to play some more events,” said Hermoza.

Here is a look at the final table results for the event:

And here are the results from earlier tonight:

10th: Timothy Diederich – $1,850
11th: Brian Britton – $1,850
12th: Julio Novo – $1,850
13th: Brent Ballentine – $1,570
14th: Ali Farik – $1,570
15th: Spencer Sanchez – $1,570
16th: Philip Starner – $1,310
17th: Michael Mestey – $1,310
18th: Cathy Schenone – $1,310
19th: Patrick McConnell – $1,070
20th: Michael Jimenez – $1,070
21st: Shawn Pecora – $1,070
22nd: Timothy Turner – $860
23rd: Steven Queen – $860
24th: Barbara Cardin – $860
25th: Jakob Parks – $760
26th: Robert Brandl – $760
27th: Jerome Bocquet – $760
28th: Nicholas Visconti – $670
29th: Jason Kaplan – $670
30th: Eric Valerio – $670
31st:  Lisa Karl – $670
32nd: Samm Wiggins – $670
33rd: Vincent Censabella – $670
34th: John Disantis – $670
35th: Phillip Krnyaichi – $670
36th: Michael Guzzardi – $670
37th: Phillip Theard – $600

$400 Turbo Mixed PLO (Re-Entry)
Structure | Payouts
Level 25:  20,000/40,000 blinds

Day 1 has come to a close in Event 10 with the final three players advancing after they hit a hard stop at 3 am. Play will begin at the start of Level 25 tomorrow at 3 pm when the final three players will return to play down to a champion.

John Binns is the chip leader with a stack of 3.11 million. Nicholas Yuryez is second with 585,000, and the short stack will be Matt Bretzfield with 315,000. Here is a look how the players will be seated when play resumes:

Seat 1: EMPTY
Seat 2: Nick Yuryev – 585,000
Seat 3: EMPTY
Seat 4:  EMPTY
Seat 5: John Binns – 3,110,000 (button)
Seat 6: EMPTY
Seat 7: EMPTY
Seat 8: Matt Bretzfield – 315,000

Here is the remaining prize pool up for grabs, along with the eliminations during the final stage of play.

1st: $12,460 + WPT Trophy
2nd: $8,310
3rd: $5,890
4th:  Kelly Hunsucker – $4,280
5th: Chad Wages – $3,180
6th: Ross Corless – $2,420
7th: Charles Sears – $1,890

And here are the results from earlier tonight:

8th: Christopher Light – $1,510
9th: Andrew Arthur – $1,050
10th: Unclaimed – $1,050
11th: Ryan Fasso – $1,050
12th: Andrell Evans – $1,050
13th: Billy Cashwell – $910
14th: James Dulin – $910
15th: Christopher Biemer – $910
16th: Martin Schamaun – $820
17th: Bernie Wen – $820
18th: David Totten – $820
19th: Wally Maddah – $750

$600 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 35:  200,000/400,000 with a 400,000 ante
Players Remaining: 7 of 4,363

Day 2 of Event 1 has come to a close with the final seven players advancing when play hit a hard stop at 3 am. There was 34:43 remaining in Level 35 when play came to a close, and that’s where things will kick off tomorrow when the field returns at 3 pm to play down to a champion.

Adam Quimby is the chip leader with a huge stack of 31,850,000. Rounding out the top three are Matt Higgins (15,150,000), and Chris Mo (12,475,000), who was near the top of the chip counts for the majority of Day 2.

Seat 1: Matt Higgins – 15,150,000
Seat 2: Adam Quimby – 31,850,000 (button)
Seat 3: EMPTY
Seat 4: Ashley Spring – 7,575,000
Seat 5: EMPTY
Seat 6: Chris Mo – 12,475,000
Seat 7: Bruno Carvalho – 10,300,000
Seat 8: John Sacher – 3,100,000
Seat 9: Nanda Rajagopal – 6,000,000

Here is the remaining prize pool up for grabs, along with the two eliminations during the final stage of play.

1st: $284,870 + WPT Trophy
2nd: $176,110
3rd: $138,030
4th: $108,760
5th: $86,140
6th: $68,600
7th: $54,910
8th: David Sathue – $44,200
9th: Clyde Maliauka – $35,770

$600 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 34:  150,000/300,000 with a 300,000 ante
Players Remaining: 9 of 4,363

The final nine players have taken their seats at the final table of Event 1. Here is a look at the seat draw with chip counts.

Seat 1: Matt Higgins – 4,600,000
Seat 2: Adam Quimby – 28,900,000
Seat 3: David Sathue – 3,300,000
Seat 4: Ashley Spring – 7,650,000
Seat 5: Clyde Maliauka – 2,825,000
Seat 6: Chris Mo – 13,300,000
Seat 7: Bruno Carvalho – 11,300,000
Seat 8: John Sacher – 4,400,000
Seat 9: Nanda Rajagopal – 7,525,000

Here is the remaining prize pool up for grabs.

1st: $284,870 + WPT Trophy
2nd: $176,110
3rd: $138,030
4th: $108,760
5th: $86,140
6th: $68,600
7th: $54,910
8th: $44,200
9th: $35,770

$400 Turbo Mixed PLO (Re-Entry)
Structure | Payouts
Level 23:  15,000/25,000 blinds

The final eight players have taken their seats at the final table of Event 10, and here is a look at the seat draw with chip counts:

Seat 1: Chad Wages – 380,000
Seat 2: Nick Yuryev – 300,000
Seat 3: Charles Sears – 60,000
Seat 4:  Christopher Light – Eliminated in Eighth Place ($1,510)
Seat 5: John Binns – 1,000,000
Seat 6: Ross Corless – 250,000
Seat 7: Kelly Shunsuker – 400,000
Seat 8: Matt Bretzfield – 285,000

Here is a look at the remaining prize pool up for grabs:

1st: $12,460 + WPT Trophy
2nd: $8,310
3rd: $5,890
4th: $4,280
5th: $3,180
6th: $2,420
7th: $1,890

$600 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 34:  150,000/300,000 with a 100,000 ante
Players Remaining: 9 of 4,363

Here is a look at the recent eliminations on the journey down to the final table in Event 1.

10th: Christopher Horter – $29,100
11th: Michael Lee – $29,100
12th: Weston Wells – $29,100
13th: Katherine Douse – $23,800
14th: Daniel Pearlman – $23,800
15th: James Rumptz – $23,800
16th: Maurice Paradis – $19,580
17th: $Bradley Miller – 19,580
18th: Enzo Romano – $19,580

$1,100 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Structure | Payouts
Level 16:  3,000/5,000 with a 5,000 ante

The final 25 players have bagged up their chips to return for Day 2 in Event 9, and the chip leader at the end of play is Joseph Henry with a stack of 340,000. Here is a look at the seat draw with chip counts for when cards get back into the air tomorrow at 2pm.

Table 53
Seat 1: Eddy Mroczkowski – 112,000
Seat 2: Nancy Birnbaum – 82,000
Seat 3: Doug Marro – 217,000
Seat 4:
Seat 5: Gabe Ramos – 188,000 (button)
Seat 6: Michael Tweedlie – 178,000
Seat 7: Aditya Prasetyo – 73,000
Seat 8: Zhengxiong Zouxu – 242,000
Seat 9: Harvey Vandeven – 90,000

Table 54
Seat 1: Joseph Henry – 340,000
Seat 2: Javier Zarco – 98,000
Seat 3: Kevin Dakes – 211,000 (button)
Seat 4: Jimmy Farnsworth – 75,000
Seat 5: Anthony Lambert – 113,000
Seat 6: Hunter Cichy – 83,000
Seat 7:
Seat 8: Brandon Boswell – 178,000
Seat 9: Rodney Turvin – 87,000

Table 58
Seat 1: Robert Pratt – 126,000
Seat 2: Adnan Khabbaz – 45,000 (button)
Seat 3: Kevin Blewitt – 59,000
Seat 4: Don Linsky – 204,000
Seat 5: Alex Ziskin – 48,000
Seat 6: Hyndi Khomutetsky – 64,000
Seat 7: Frank Harrington – 155,000
Seat 8: Michael Laake – 75,000
Seat 9: Mark Dickstein – 97,000

Here is the prize pool up for grabs on Day 2:

1st: $41,770 + WPT Trophy
2nd: $27,370
3rd: $16,120
4th: $9,810
5th: $7,570
6th: $6,280
7th: $5,440
8th: $4,790
9th: $4,180
10th-12th: $3,610
13th-15th: $3,060
16th-18th: $2,550
19th-21st: $2,050

$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$20,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 21:  10,000/15,000 with a 15,000 ante

The final nine players have taken their seats at the final table for Event 8, and here is a look at the seat draw with chip counts:

Seat 1: Daniel Couzens – 985,000
Seat 2: Harvey Shifrin – 475,000
Seat 3: Richard Lyon – 305,000
Seat 4: Chun Wang – 890,000
Seat 5: Alex Vazquez – 400,000
Seat 6: Nick Ahmazi – 160,000
Seat 7: Raymond Parks – 625,000
Seat 8: Brad Jarrett – Eliminated in Ninth Place ($2,190)
Seat 9: Michael Hermoza – 1,350,000

Here is the remaining prize pool up for grabs:

1st: $21,890 + WPT Trophy
2nd: $15,370
3rd: $9,890
4th: $6,170
5th: $4,760
6th: $3,950
7th: $3,320
8th: $2,730

2022 WPT Tampa
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Tampa, Florida
Event 7
$400 Limit Omaha 8 (Re-Entry)
Entries:  128
Prize Pool:  $42,880
August 28, 2022

Ardit Bitincka took home the WPT trophy tonight in Event 8 after the final three players decided on a chop to end the tournament. Bitincka took home his first tournament trophy and the top prize money worth $9,666. Here is what he had to say after the victory.

“It felt pretty good because I don’t usually play Omaha. I maybe play four or five times a year. I think I was running pretty good the whole time, so I felt pretty comfortable even though there were people that were much better than me at the table. It’s my first trophy, so I’m really happy. My birthday is this Thursday, so I think it comes at a pretty good time,” said Bitincka.

When he was asked about his journey through the final table, Bitincka had this to say: “I think at the final table I was just trying to wait out and see how the other players were going to play it out. I probably gave it about half-an-hour to see how everything was going to play out. And then I was getting a lot of good hands so I started pushing in and getting aggressive.”

“I like the selection of games here, even the games I’m not playing as much like HORSE and PLO, whatever it is. I busted out of the $600 No-Limit after a single hand today, and it was 50/50 between playing the next No-Limit event or this one. I flipped a coin, and it was this one. And even in the ICM we just did I flipped a coin, and it said to do the ICM. I won the flips. It’s really nice to offer these different type of events, because then you get the different type of players coming in, so I think it’s amazing,” said Bitincka when he was asked about the variety of games offered at this tournament series.

Here are the final results for the tournament:

$600 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 29:  50,000/100,000 with a 100,000 ante
Players Remaining: 18 of 4,363

Here is a look at the players that have recently cashed on the journey down to the final two tables in the tournament.

19th: Rohit Palla – $16,190
20th: Yazdi Mehta – $16,190
21st: Jack Rush – $16,190
22nd: Max Kingstone – $13,470
23rd: Michael Berk – $13,470
24th: Samuel Schenker – $13,470
25th: Kristine Glassman – $11,260
26th: Joseph Yohannes – $11,260
27th: Rett Hubbard – $11,260
28th: Justin Donato – $9,470
29th: Joel Deutsch – $9,470
30th: Britt Williams – $9,470
31st: Barrett Worst – $8,010
32nd: Hyungjoon Ahn – $8,010
33rd: Mark Wiser – $8,010
34th: Jamie Smith – $6,810
35th: Lucas Tae – $6,810
36th: Kirk Gutman – $6,810
37th: David Dykes – $5,830
38th: Keith Stonestreet – $5,830
39th: Richard Palase – $5,830
40th: Johnny Sanchez – $5,830
41st: Jordan Robinson – $5,830
42nd: Kamoru Yusuf – $5,830
43rd: DeVaughn Smith – $5,830
44th: Aiping Jiang – $5,830
45th: William Parramore – $5,830